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Key dates over October 1917

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Lives lost on this day: 12

4th October 1917 - CITIZENS AND SUGAR CARDS

Rolling casualty count: 7710

War Front:

1st Batt: Draft of 13 other ranks joined Batt. Casualties over the last 4 days were; 6 other ranks wounded, 1 gassed and 1 killed.

2nd Batt: Major Pardoe took over command of the Batt when Lt Col Gogarty went on a fortnights leave

2/8th Batt; 2nd Lt Hodgeson re-joined the Batt. Batt moved to Grimsby Camp, St Nicholas, being relieved by the 2/5th Glos.

4th Batt: Coys practised attacking in waves under a barrage represented by flags. Men had foot-bath treatment.

10th Batt: Batt still in the Line where 3 other ranks were killed and 12 wounded. A draft of 4 other ranks joined.

14th Batt: Coys camped at X Camp on the Western Road, Poperinghe.

Home Front:

CITIZENS AND SUGAR CARDS – Some Wrong Applications – Though the filling in of the application for a sugar card offers no difficulty to the average person, there appear to be a number of people in the City to whom the printed instructions are not explicit. The officials of the City Food Control Committee have received a number of application forms which have not properly been filled in. In some cases the applicants have not given their address even. Some of these applicants have stated the school which their children attend, and have been traced through the school, but there are others who cannot be traced and they run the risk of having no sugar cards. It was been arranged with the local Education Authority that the teachers in the schools shall, during school hours, assist any person who is in doubt how to fill in his or her form. If disappointment is to be avoided this information should be widely diffused.

WORK OF MISSIONARIES – Exhibition in Worcester – In the Mission Hall in Wylds Lane, the Dean of Worcester opened a missionary exhibition. The object of the exhibition is to show more clearly the varied work of the missionaries in different countries, their difficulties and the superstitions and customs of the people among whom they work.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team